1996 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld vs. Vic)
1994 Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border
1993 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123
1991 June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73
1991 Allan Border takes 5-68 vs. WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown
1990 U.S. warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
1989 Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
1988 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
1987 Allan Border scores 205 vs. NZ to become Australia's top rungetter
1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
1986 Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs
1986 Allan Border scores the 10,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay)
1986 Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. NZ
1985 Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire)
1984 Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)
1984 Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies
1984 Border scores 100* vs. WI Trinidad after 98* in 1st cricket innings
1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
1980 Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan
1980 Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins
1980 Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket vs. Pakistan
1979 Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed
1978 Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, vs. England at the MCG
1977 Libyan-Egyptian border fights
1977 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW vs. Qld)
1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
1974 Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute
1968 Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards
1968 Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61
1968 Israeli-Jordan border fight
1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
1967 Indian/Chinese border fights
1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights
1967 Sling-shot goal post and 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
1967 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
1965 India and Pakistan border fights
1965 Israeli/Jordanian border fights
1965 India and Pakistan border fights
1965 India and Pakistan engage in border fight
1964 In El Paso, Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border
1963 Algeria and Morocco border conflict
1962 E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
1961 East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
1957 Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire
1955 Allan Border, cricket captain, Australia
1950 German DR and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
1948 Israeli Defence Forces crosses Egyptian border
1945 U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border
1944 Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
1939 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
1939 Zane Grey, U.S. western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
1939 Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1930 Boqueron battle ends Paraguay border dispute
1929 Russian-Chinese border fights
1914 French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1911 U.S. sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1906 Howard Petrie, Beverly, Massachusetts, actor, Border River, Bounty Hunter
1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
1900 President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique
1887 Hobart Cavanaugh, U.S., actor, Border Town, Black Angel
1878 Harry Carey Sr, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Aces Wild, Border Cafe, Air Force
1842 U.S. - Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
1834 Leon Walras, French economist, border use theory
1818 49th parallel forms as border between U.S. and Canada
1818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
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